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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

CHARLES WRIGHT, OF HOMINY, OKLAHOMA.

REGISTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hominy, in the county of Osage and State of Oklahoma, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Registers, of Which thefollowing is a specification.

The present invention provides a mechanism for keeping tally orregistering any number of units or operations and preserving a sum totalof each movement of the mechanism corresponding to the article or unitserving to actuate the mechanism at the beginning or initial step.

The invention provides a mechanism of the character and for the purposeaforesaid, which may be used generally for recording movements of anynature.

In its specific adaptation the invention is illustrated in connectionwith a weighing beam for registering the movements of the beam, therebyrecording the number of units of measure. This is particularlyadvantageous for weighing grain or other product or commodity, wherebythe bulk run through any machine or handled may be determined andascertained at a moments notice.

The invention consists of the novel fea tures, details of constructionand combination of parts, which hereinafter will be more particularlyset forth, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out inthe appended claim.

Referring to the drawings, formingapart of the specification, Figure lis a front view of a register or recorder constructed in accordance withand embodying the essential features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a Viewsimilar to Fig. 1 with the front portion reioved on the section line 22of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 4. Fig. 4is a horizontal section on the line 44 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detailperspective View of the upper port-ion of the block and the guideslidably mounted thereon for controlling the movements of the operatingpawl. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. l with the front removed on theline G6 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of an end portion of oneof the shafts and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 27, 1909.

Patented July 12, 1910. Serial No. 514,923.

the bearing therefor, the parts being separated and arranged in a group.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription, and indicated in all the views of the drawings, by the samereference characters.

The operating mechanism is suitably housed and comprises registeringwheels supporting shafts and indicating hands and dials. It is to beunderstood that each registering wheel may be adapted to indicate anynumber of units. In the present instance the registering wheels arenumbered to record or indicate fifty units and after the units wheel hasmade a complete revolution it actuates and moves the tens wheel one stepand after the tens wheel has completed a revolution it moves thehundredths wheel one step. The units wheel is designated by the numeral1 and is fast to a shaft 2, which is mounted in suitable bearings. Theshaft 2 is provided at its outer end with an indicating hand 3, whichmoves over a dial 4 upon the front of the housing or casing inclosingthe operating parts. A ratchet wheel 4 is fast to the shaft 2 so as torotate therewith and with the units wheel 1. The ratchet wheel 4 isprovided with fifty teeth, each corresponding with a unit or degree ofmovement of the units wheel at each operation thereof. The units wheelis moved forward step-by-step by means of an operating pawl 5, which isconnected to an operating member, which in the present instance consistsof a weighing beam 6. The operating pawl 5 consists of a spring arm andis arranged to engage with the teeth of the ratchet wheel 4, so as tomove said ratchet wheel forward the distance of one tooth at eachcomplete movement of the operating member 6. A detent pawl 7 preventsbackward movement of the ratchet wheel and is adapted to engage theteeth thereof. When the operating member 6 moves downward or in onedirection the pawl 5 is caused to ride upon a tooth of the ratchet wheel4 and upon upward movement of the operating member 6 the actuating pawl5 engages a tooth of the ratchet wheel 4 and rotates said ratchet wheela distance corresponding to the length of the tooth, thereby bringingthe next number in position for recording movement. guide 8 is slidablymounted upon a block or support 9 and is provided at one end with anopening 10, through which the actuating pawl 5 passes. The guide 8 issecured in position by suitable fastenings 11. By proper adjustment ofthe guide 8 the actuating pawl 5 may be adjusted with reference to theteeth of the ratchet wheel 4, so as to insure movement of the ratchetwheel on each operation a distance corresponding to the length of atooth. The units wheel 1 is provided with a projection 12, which isadapted to engage with a tooth of the hundredths wheel, so as to movethe latter forward a distance to bring the next number in properposition for observation to indicate correct registration.

A shaft 13 paralleling the shaft 2 and mounted in suitable bearings isprovided with a series of disks or wheels. The tens wheel 14 is fast tothe outer end of the shaft 13 and is provided with numbers in multiplesof fifty, so that at each complete revolution of the units wheel thetens wheel is moved a distance to bring the next number in position tobe read through an observation opening provided in the front 15 of thehousing or casing. A toothed wheel 16 is mounted upon a shaft 13 in theplane of the units wheel 1 and its teeth are adapted to be engaged bythe projection 12 of said units wheel 1. A ratchet wheel 17, fast uponthe shaft 13, is adapted to co5perate with a detent pawl 18, so as toprevent backward rotation of the tens wheel after the same has beenmoved forward. A wheel 19, fast upon the shaft 13, is provided with aprojection 20 adapted to engage the teeth of a toothed wheel 21, so asto turn the latter forward a distance corresponding to the space betweenthe teeth at each complete revolution of the tens wheel.

The hundredths wheel 22 is fast to a shaft 23 paralleling the shafts 2and 13 and mounted in suitable bearings. The toothed wheel 21 is fast tothe shaft 23 to rotate therewith. A ratchet wheel 24, fast to the shaft23, isadapted to cooperate with a de tent pawl 25, so as to, preventbackward rotation of the shaft 23. The units wheel registers fifty, thetens wheel five hundred, divided into numbers representing fifty at eachmovement and the hundredths wheel indicates five thousand, divided intonumbers of five hundred each.

It is to be understood that the registering mechanism may be incased inany suitable manner according to the machine or mechanism, the number ofmovements of which are to be registered. The actuating pawl 5 is adaptedto be connected to the moving part, which in a weighing machinepreferably consists of the scale beam 6, as indicated, said scale beamrepresenting the operating member. At each movement of the operatingmember and pawl connected therewith, the units wheel is moved thedistance of one tooth, thereby registering one, which is in-.

dicated by the hand 3 on the dial 4:. After the units wheel has made acomplete revolution the projection 12 of the wheel 1 engages a tooth ofthe wheel 16 and moves the tens wheel a distance corresponding to atooth so as to bring the number fifty opposite the observation openingin the front of the casing. At each movement of the tens wheel a numbercorresponding to fifty is brought into position, so as to record thetotal number of movements of the units wheel. The hundredths wheel ismoved in a like manner to the tens wheel and indicates five hundred ateach complete revolution of the tens wheel.

In order that the several shafts may be readily placed in position orquickly removed for any purpose they are mounted in bearings, which areshown most clearly in Fig. 7. The bearing comprises a hanger 26, whichis formed in an end with an open slot 27. A plate 28, having an openslot 29 in an edge, is adapted to be secured against a side of thehanger 26 and close the open end of the slot 27. The shaft indicatedgenerally by the reference numeral 2 has a portion re duced, asindicated at 29% to obtain a bearing in the closed ends of the hanger 26and the part 28. When the parts are assembled longitudinal movement ofthe shaft is prevented by the reduced or grooved portion fitting withinthe closed ends of the slots 27 and 29, the shoulders formed at oppositeends of the reduced or rounded part 29 engaging with the parts 26 and 28and preventing any possible longitudinal movement of the shaft. Thisconstruction admits of the shafts being easily removed or quickly placedin position, as may be required for any desired purpose.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the advantages of construction and of the methodof operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art towhich the invention appertains, and while I have described the principleof operation of the invention, together with the device which I nowconsider to be the embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understoodthat the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such changes maybe made when desired as are within the scope of the claim appendedhereto.

I claim A registering mechanism comprising a shaft provided withindicating means, a

ratchet wheel fast to said shaft, an actuating for securing the guide inthe adjusted po- 10 pawl for cooperation with the ratchet wheel, sition.

an operating member for the actuating pawl, In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature and a guide for the actuating pawl slidably in presence oftwo witnesses.

mounted u on the operating member and I adapted to properly position theactuating CHARLES pawl with reference to the cooperating Vitnesses:ratchet wheel, said guide having an opening H. F. DIsHoN, through whichthe pawl passes, and means CHAs. PETTIT.

